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Author : Barry L. Schwartz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827611313
"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."
Author : Albert Vorspan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1077845456
Author : Albert Vorspan
Publisher : Urj Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCAL:$B631447
Vorspan presents contemporary concerns of the total community, not just the Jewish community and asks that the moral values of Judaism be applied to them. age I2 and up.
Author : Peter Cave,Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000045086
Arguing about Judaism differs from other introductions to Judaism. It is unique, not solely in its engaging dialogues between a Reform rabbi and a humanist, atheist philosopher, but also in its presentation of and challenges to the fundamental religious beliefs of the Jewish heritage and their relevance to today’s Jewish community. The dialogues contain both Jewish narratives and philosophical responses, with topics ranging from the nature of God to controversies over sexual relations, animal welfare and the environment — from antisemitism to the state of Israel and Zionism. Although the rabbi and philosopher argue strongly, clearly enjoying the cut and thrust of debate, they do so with sensitivity, charm and respect, revealing the rich intricacies of the Jewish religion and contemporary Jewish life. While essential reading for those studying Judaism and Jewish history, the book aims to stimulate debate more generally amongst Jews and non-Jews, the religious and the atheist — all those with a general interest in religion and philosophy.
Author : Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Julius H. Schoeps,Yitzhak Sternberg,Olaf Glöckner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1330 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110383386
The Handbook of Israel: Major Debates serves as an academic compendium for people interested in major discussions and controversies over Israel. It provides innovative, updated and informative knowledge on a range of acute debates. Among other topics, the handbook discusses post-Zionism, militarism, democracy and religion, (in)equality, colonialism, today’s criticism of Israel, Israel-Diaspora relations, and peace programs. Outstanding scholars face each other with unadulterated, divergent analyses. These historical, political and sociological texts from Israel and elsewhere make up a major reference book within academia and outside academia. About seventy contributions grouped in thirteen thematic sections present controversial and provocative approaches refl ecting, from different angles, on the present-day challenges of the State of Israel. Other Major Works by the Editors: Eliezer Ben-Rafael Is Israel One? Religion, Nationalism and Ethnicity Confounded, Brill (2005) Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israel, Cambridge University Press (paperback) (2007) Julius H. Schoeps Begegnungen. Menschen, die meinen Lebensweg kreuzten. Suhrkamp (2016) Pioneers of Zionism: Hess, Pinsker, Rülf. Messianism, Settlement Policy, and the Israeli-Palestinan Conflict. De Gruyter (2013) Yitshak Sternberg World Religions and Multiculturalism: A Relational Dialectic. Brill (2010). Transnationalism. Brill (2009) Olaf Glöckner Being Jewish in 21st Century Germany. De Gruyter (2015, with Haim Fireberg) Deutschland, die Juden und der Staat Israel. Olms (2016, with Julius H. Schoeps)
Author : Dana Evan Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136055744
This is a ground breaking collection of essays that takes a hard look at the Reform Movement today. Opening essays look at the problem of building a religous community, the competition in the "spiritual marketplace," and why people join or do not join a Reform synagogue. Other contributors look at a host of controversial issues including Patrilineal Descent, Outreach, Intermarriage, gender issues, gay and lesbian participation, and others.
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780761852407
This collection of eight essays draws on a half-year of work, the second six months of 2009. Neusner takes up three problems in the history of Religions, four essays on fundamental issues in form-history and the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon, and one theological essay.
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015012998293
Noted scholar Jacob Neusner records skirmishes in an ongoing battle within the field of Judaic Studies between ethnic and academic scholars. On the one side, Neusner argues, ethnic scholars assume the interest in and importance of the Jewish and Judaic data and regard incremental erudition, whether or not formed for a purpose, as self-evidently interesting. On the other side, academic scholars address issues of humanistic learning and treat the Jewish or Judaic data as exemplary of broader issues in the humanities and social sciences. Taken together, the skirmishes constitute a widening gap between these two academies on the essential question of how to conduct scholarship about the Jews and Judaism. By bringing together book reviews and essays of debate, Professor Neusner addresses the works of colleagues and critics and presents as a whole a corpus of criticism. Co-published with Studies in Judaism.
Author : Etomar Ben Roffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1978-10-01
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 0682491233
Author : Jacob Neusner,J Avery-Peck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004294097
This collection of systematic Auseinandersetzungen articulates difference and spells out what is at issue. Learning atrophies when political consensus substitutes for criticism, and when other than broadly-accepted viewpoints, approaches, and readings find a hearing only with difficulty, if at all. The editors therefore have invited colleagues systematically to outline their views in an Auseinandersetzung with contrary ones. The several participants explain how, in broad and sweeping terms, they see the state of learning in their areas of special interest. The editors invited leading players in the USA, Europe, and the State of Israel, in the study of ancient Judaism, both in Second Temple Times and after 70 C.E. The work commences with a thoroughly fresh perspective of a theoretical question: what, in a religion so concerned with social norms and public policy, can we possibly mean by "law" when we speak of law in Judaism. It then proceeds with two chapters on Second Temple Judaism, and two on the special subject of the Dead Sea library. The two papers in the present part provide an overview of matters and a systematic, critical account of the fading consensus, respectively. The next set of papers ought to stand as the definitive account of the diverse viewpoints on a basic question of method. Because of the willingness of contending parties to meet one another in a single frame of discourse, the work is able to portray with considerable breadth the presently-contending viewpoints concerning the use of Rabbinic literature for historical purposes. Then proceed a number of other accounts of how matters look from the perspective of major participants in scholarly debate. At the same time as the requirements of historical-critical reading of the Rabbinic literature precipitated sustained and vigorous debate, other problems have attracted attention. Among these a critical issue emerges in the hermeneutics to govern the reading of the documents for the purposes of other-than-historical study, feminist interests, for example.
Author : S. Daniel Breslauer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791497449
The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth offers a panorama of diverse definitions of myth, understandings of Judaism, and competing evaluations of the "mythic" element in religion. The contributors focus on the problem of defining myth as a category in religious studies, examine modern religion and the role of myth in a "secularized" world, and look at specific cases of Jewish myth from biblical through modern times.
Author : Craig R. Prentiss
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814767016
This volume, meant specifically for those new to the field, brings together an ensemble of prominent scholars and illuminates the role religious myths have played in shaping those social boundaries that we call "races" and "ethnicities".
Author : Jason B. Hood
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567356673
Why does Matthew append 'and his brothers' to Judah and Jechoniah (1:2, 11)? Secondly, why does Matthew include the following four annotations: 'and Zerah by Tamar', 'by Rahab', 'by Ruth', and 'by the [wife] of Uriah' (1:3-6)? Jason B. Hood uses a composition critical approach in which he examines biblical genealogies and 'summaries of Israel's story' in order to shed light on these features of Matthew's gospel. Hood asserts that he addition of 'and his brothers' recalls Jesus' royal role. Judah and Jechoniah in Second Temple literature are both understood to have reversed their wickedness and earned royal status by self-sacrifice, perhaps pointing to the self-sacrifice of Jesus for his brothers before his full enthronement. A review of scholarly explanations of the significance of the 'four (five) women' in the genealogy, unearths an overlooked interpretation - Matthew does not name four women in 1:3-6 but four Gentiles (Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and Uriah) traditionally celebrated as righteous.
Author : Julius H. Schoeps,Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Olaf Glöckner,Yitzhak Sternberg
Publisher : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02
Category : Israel
ISBN : 3110351641
This pioneering handbook is presenting Israel in its intellectual controversies regarding Zionism, the making of the State of Israel and contemporary Israeli society. In more than a dozen of thematic sections, a wide range of perspectives is covered. Among the debated key topics are Israel and Democracy, Religion and State, and Zionism vs. Post-Zionism. The Handbook constitutes a major reference work for anyone dealing with Israel."
Author : Julia Phillips Berger
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0867051833
Inform your students' lives with the richness of thousands of years of Jewish history, culture, and tradition. Teaching Jewish History tackles separately each of the key Jewish historical periods-Biblical, Rabbinic, Medieval, Early Modern, Enlightenment, and Modern, as well as the North American Jewish experience. The authors shift focus away from rote memorization of dates, names, and places, and instead examine each period through the lens of core historical concepts-the Diaspora, Covenant, acculturation, assimilation, and building community. History comes to life, helping students whether elementary, middle or high school, or adult develop a stronger Jewish identity. Teaching Jewish History gives teachers the tools to: Understand and explain the meaning of key concepts, terms, names, places, and events in each period of history. Identify and examine primary source documents and objects such as artifacts, diaries, sacred texts, photographs, and artwork. Conduct meaningful discussions of how the core concepts of Jewish history recur in and are relevant to each historical period. Develop a variety of activities including field trips, mock trials, oral histories, and role-playing activities. Place historical events on a timeline. Use additional historical and educational resources such as books, articles, videos, and Internet sites. Teaching Jewish History is an invaluable resource for the novice and the expert teacher of religious and day school children and for educators working with adults in synagogues, community centers, and family education programs.